Education

During the campaign, one of the continuing narratives (and continuing today) was the lack of jobs for blue collar workers. Some of the election coverage around Wisconsin talked about lack of blue collar workers in the smaller cites, places like…

In a number of fairly recent posts I have been urging new faces to get involved in party politics. Well the other shoe in that equation is to run for elected office at the local and state level to help…

Here’s a feel good human interest story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A curious Wisconsinite follows up on family stories to track down the deep woods northern Wisconsin crash site of a Cold War era B-52 bomber. Fifty years ago…

Actually Governor Scott Walker was in Glendale (a Milwaukee suburb just north of the city) on Sunday attending a Support The Blue Day rally. I don’t have an issue with that. But considering the events in Milwaukee Saturday night and…

This is being reprinted with permission from Save Our Schools Wauwatosa. It originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and OnMilwaukee.com and was written by Mary Young. Most of you know how I feel about public schools and I think…

Along with the reduction in state funding for the University of Wisconsin System, the Walker administration and GOP legislature gutted faculty tenure. They had all kinda reasons why it was bad and holding back the university. Well the new tenure…

After reading the article in this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the shortage of teachers…and the inequality of per pupil spending across the metropolitan area…I realized that the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program just underway out of the county executives…

With Wisconsin still in play before the April 5th primary election, both parties were very active around the state. And the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee played a pivotal role in the campaigns. The Democratic Debate visited campus on February…

Many of our local readers are probably aware of the history behind the state-mandated Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program – or OSPP. Essentially the state has required the county executive to take over 3 underperforming Milwaukee Public Schools per year…

There is a truism in management philosophy that “What you measure is what you get”. It sounds like we are seeing a subset of this in education. There apparently is a movement afoot to drop algebra from high school education…because…well…it’s…